Abstract
Proving formulas in propositional logic can be done in different ways. Some of these are based on of resolution, others on binary decision diagrams (BDDs). Experimental evidence suggests that BDDs and resolution based techniques are fundamentally different. This paper is an extended abstract of a paper [3] in which we confirm these findings by mathematical proof.We provide examples that are easy for BDDs and exponentially hard for any form of resolution, and vice versa, examples that are easy for resolution and exponentially hard for BDDs.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Ben-Sasson, E., and Wigderson, A. Short proofs are narrow-resolution made simple. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (1999), pp. 517–526.
Bryant, R. E. Graph-based algorithms for boolean function manipulation. IEEE Transactions on Computers C-35, 8 (1986), 677–691.
Groote, J. F., and Zantema, H. Resolution and binary decision diagrams cannot simulate each other polynomially. Journal of Discrete Applied Mathematics (2001). To appear.
Haken, A. The intractability of resolution. Theoretical Computer Science 39 (1985), 297–308.
Meinel, C., and Theobald, T. Algorithms and Data Structures in VLSI Design: OBDD— Foundations and Applications. Springer, 1998.
Tseitin, G. On the complexity of derivation in propositional calculus. In Studies in Constructive Mathematics and Mathematical Logic, part 2 (1968), pp. 115–125. Reprinted in J. Siekmann and G. Wrightson (editors),Automation of reasoning vol. 2, pp. 466–483.,Springer-Verlag Berlin, 1983.
Uribe, T. E., and Stickel, M. E. Ordered binary decision diagrams and the Davis-Putnam procedure. In First conference on Constraints in Computational Logic(1994), J.-P. Jouannaud, Ed., vol. 845of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, pp. 34–49.
Urquhart, A. Hard examples for resolution. Journal of the ACM 34, 1 (1987), 209–219.
Urquhart, A. The complexity of propositional proofs. The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 1, 4 (1995), 425–467.
Zantema, H., and van de Pol, J. C. A rewriting approach to binary decision diagrams. Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming (2001). To appear.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2001 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Groote, J.F., Zantema, H. (2001). Resolution and Binary Decision Diagrams Cannot Simulate Each Other Polynomially. In: Bjørner, D., Broy, M., Zamulin, A.V. (eds) Perspectives of System Informatics. PSI 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2244. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45575-2_5
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45575-2_5
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-43075-9
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-45575-2
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive